India's G20 presidency: Two day W20 inception meet in Maharashtra's Aurangabad

The twoday W20 Women 20 inception meeting as part of Indias presidency of the G20 forum will take place in Aurangabad in Maharashtra from Monday officials saidNearly 150 women dignitaries from member and guest countries and special invitees will participate in the meet they saidThe W20 is an official engagement group under G20 and was established during the Turkish presidency in 2015Its primary objective is to ensure gender considerations are mainstreamed into discussions of G20 and get translated into the G20 Leaders Declaration as policies and commitments that foster gender equality and womens economic empowerment a release earlier saidW20 India took over the presidency from W20 Indonesia on December 12 2022Also Read G20 can contribute to finding solution to global challenges of geopolitical tensions Anurag ThakurThe inception meeting will be held in a private hotel in Aurangabad where Chair of W20 Sandhya Purecha Founder Chair W20 Gulden Tuktan G20 Sherpa Amitabh Kant Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani Union Minister of State for Finance Dr Bhagwat Karad and W20 chief coordinator Dharitri Patnaik will participate in the opening ceremony an official saidThere will be panel discussions on issues like empowering women in nano micro amp startup enterprises role of women as changemakers in climate resilience action creating and enabling ecosystem for women leaders at the grassrootsSubjects like creating pathways for women through education amp skilling and womenled development in India will also be discussed the official saidOn Tuesday the delegates will take part in the Aurangabad heritage tour and visit historical gates Aurangabad Caves and Bibi Ka Maqbara the official saidThere will be discussions on stories of unconventional women womenled development policy and legal frameworksThe team will also visit the world heritage site of Ellora Caves followed by dinner at the Ellora Visitor Centre the official saidA jan bhagidari peoples participation event was held in the city on Sunday evening which saw the participation of around 1000 women from different walks of life including anganwadi workers members of various NGOs and many other grassroot level workersDr Farahdibha Tenrilemba leader of the Indonesian delegation Elena Myakotnikova of Russian delegation South Korean delegate Angela JooHyun Kang South African delegate Sibulele Poswayo and Japanese delegate Satoko Kono participated in the interactive sessionThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever